John Predmore, S.J., is a Northeast Province Jesuit and was the pastor of Jordan's English language parish. He studies art and directs BC High's adult spiritual formation programs. Formerly a retreat director in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Ignatian Spirituality is given through guided meditations, weekend-, 8-day, and 30-day Retreats based on The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Ignatian Spirituality serves the contemporary world as people strive to develop a friendship with God.

Monday, May 16, 2016

Prayer: Attributed to Fr. Bede Jarrett, O.P.

We seem to give them back to You, O God,who gave them first to us.Yet as You did not lose them in giving,so do we not lose them by their return.Not as the world gives, do you give, O Lover of souls.What You give, You take not away,for what is Yours is ours also if we are Yours.

And life is eternaland love is immortal,and death is only a horizon,and a horizon is nothing,save the limit of our sight.

Lift us up, strong Son of God, that we may see further;cleanse our eyes that we may see more clearly;draw us closer to Yourself that we may know ourselvesto be nearer to our loved ones who are with You.And while You prepare a place for us,prepare us also for that happy place,that where You are we may be also for evermore.